(Thank you once again to pamalam for that great encyclopaedia of Madeleine McCann information)

His full name is Nuno Manuel Lourenco de Jesus.

His ’phone call early on Saturday 5 May to the PJ seriously diverted investigation co-ordinator Goncalo Amaral and his team into contacting the German and Polish police, and INTERPOL, detaining an aircraft and its passengers at Berlin airport, and successfully asking the Polish police to visit Wojchiech Krokowski’s apartment in Warsaw, moments after he arrived back home.

Nuno Lourenco’s central claim was that a man - subsequently identified as Krokowski – had tried to abduct his three-year-old daughter outside a cake-shop/cafe in the tiny village of Sagres, at the extreme south-western tip of Europe.

Nuno Lourenco and children - photo on Facebook, 2012

This claim has already been examined in detail on the CMOMM forum, in two ‘Krokowski’ threads. A poll was run on this thread:

Only 35 have voted so far, but out of those, 28 (80%) agreed that Nuno Lourenco’s statement was a lie.

TWO MATCHING DESCRIPTIONS OF A SUSPECTED KIDNAPPER

The rapidity with which the PJ investigated Lourenco’s lead was due to two key features in what he told the police:

A His description of a man wearing strange clothes, ‘classic’ shoes, with long dark hair, who ‘didn’t look like a tourist’, matched the description of an alleged abductor of Madeleine by a friend of the McCanns, Jane Tanner, only hours earlier (on Friday 4 May), (The Tanner sighting was later – and very controversially - ruled out by DCI Andy Redwood when, six years later, he told a BBC Crimewatch McCann Special programme (October 2014) that a man had suddenly come forward claiming that he was the man allegedly seen by Jane Tanner. He told Redwood he had been alone, carrying his daughter home - in her pyjamas - in his arms, with no covering on her, after placing her in a night crèche. Amazingly, he still had the very clothes that both he and his child were wearing that night. Very few Madeleine McCann researchers believe what Redwood said)

and

B He had a photograph of a car which he said belonged to the man who (he says) nearly kidnapped his daughter. The police rapidly traced the car as a hired car rented by Krokowksi for the week 28 April to 5 May 2007.

GONCALO AMARAL IS FOOLED

No wonder Amaral’s team was excited, as this extract from Goncalo Amaral’s book (AnnaEsse’s translation) makes clear:

QUOTE:

From information from Sagres, we learn that an individual [Lourenco] has been surprised [by a man – Krokowski] on Mareta beach taking photos of several children and in particular of a little girl aged 4, blonde with blue eyes, who looks like Madeleine. It was the little girl's father who noticed him. This 40 year-old man, wearing glasses, tells the investigators that the photographer tried to kidnap his daughter in the afternoon of April 26th in Sagres.

He allegedly then fled in a hired car with a woman in the passenger seat. The stranger did not look like a tourist; brown hair down to his collar, wearing cream-coloured trousers and jacket and shoes of a classic style. This report reminds us of the individual encountered by Jane Tanner in the streets of Vila da Luz on the evening of Madeleine's disappearance.

Thanks to the father's composure, he managed to take a photograph of the vehicle. It's not very clear and does not allow us to make out the number plate, but we succeed, nonetheless, in finding the car. The car hire firm provides us with the identity of the driver. He is a forty-year-old Polish man, who is traveling with his wife.

Wojchiech Krokowski, from Warsaw - photo which appeared in a Sunday newspaper just weeks after Richard Hall published his second Madeleine documentary, The Phantoms

They arrived in Portugal on April 28th, from Berlin. At Faro airport, they hired a car and [stayed] in an apartment in Budens, near Praia da Luz. Unfortunately, on May 5th, at 7am, they had already left, taking with them their camera and all the photos from their holiday. We ask the German police, through Interpol, to monitor them as soon as they arrive in Berlin. All the passengers are questioned, but no one has seen a child looking like Madeleine. In Berlin, the couple take the train to return to Poland. Thus, the Polish trail comes to an end. We would like to have seen their photos...but that proved impossible.

UNQUOTE

A HOST OF IMPROBABILITIES

The improbabilities of Nuno Lourenco’s account of the alleged attempted kidnapping of his daughter have been set out in great detail in two places:

If anyone reading this article post has not read these analyses, we would recommend that you have a careful look through them to satisfy yourself as to whether Nuno Lourenco told the truth or not.

But here anyway is a brief summary of the many ‘red flags’ which, to our minds at least, and to a good many others, effectively prove that his story is a lie, a complete invention, from start to finish:

1 Altogether, three different dates are given for when the kidnapping incident is supposed to have happened

2 The improbability of both Lourenco and his wife and two friends of his, both with their young children, taking no action when (allegedly) Krokowski was taking pictures of their children on a camera just yards in front of them

3 The improbability of Krokowski trying to abduct a young girl outside a bakery-cum-café in broad daylight, in front of several witnesses, while on a week’s holiday in Portugal

4 The improbability that Lourenco took a close-up picture of Krokowski on his mobile ’phone just after the alleged attempted kidnapping of his daughter, which failed because his finger was over the shutter

5 The improbability that Krokowski had parked his car well outside the village (see photo below)

6 The improbability of his account of following Krokowski to his car and then taking a photograph of his car before he drove off

7 The fact that the photograph he allegedly took on this occasion does not show either Krokowski or his wife

8 The improbability of Lourenco deciding not to report either the photographing of his children by Krokowski, or the alleged attempted abduction of his daughter to police until six days after he says these two incidents occurred (Sunday 29 April 2007).

9 In addition to all those improbabilities, the question of the timing of his call to police on the morning of Saturday 5 May is all-important. It occurred the morning after Jane Tanner had made her statement. It was made after Krokowski’s plane took off from Faro for Berlin. And his description of Krokowski matched that of Jane Tanner in almost every detail, as Goncalo Amaral and his staff were quick to realise (see quote above).

At this stage we invite all those reading our article to decide which of the following groups they fall into:

A Believe that Nuno Lourenco’s account is the truth

B Believe that Nuno Lourneco’s account is a total fabrication, or

C Not sure either way.

The rest of this post is in effect only addressed to those in Group (B), i.e. those who accept that Nuno Lourenco’s statement is a fabrication and want to understand why. HOW KROKOWSKI WAS ‘FITTED UP’

We proceed by noting that it is agreed all round that Nuno Lourenco was describing Wojchiech Krokowski in his statement.

We believe that many, but by no means all, agree with us that Jane Tanner’s statement also describes Krokowski – and was meant to. (Even if you don’t agree with us on that point, you must at least concede that Goncalo Amaral and his team also thought that Jane Tanner and Nuno Lourenco were describing the same man).

How did Lourenco prove to police that the man they wanted was Krokowski?

Here we come to the crux of our article.

Nuno Lourenco had just two pieces of forensic evidence that pointed to Krokowski:

1 A photo of Krokowski’s hired car, taken at Sagres, and

2 His recollection of Krokowksi’s car registration number he thought featured the letters ‘AV’ and the numbers ‘67’.

Here is part of his statement: QUOTE

Shaken by this situation, and without the least doubt that the individual’s [‘Krokowski’s] intention was to abduct his daughter, he got out his mobile and began taking various pictures of the individual [Krokowski], from the front, and in such a way that the individual would clearly see that the witness [Lourenco] was taking pictures. This did not work however, as the witness had his finger on the lens of the mobile camera. Even though the individual had left the kiosk area, he noticed that the individual had now situated himself next to the wheel of a grey-coloured, recent model Renault Clio. The witness noted the registration plate on a piece of paper which he eventually discarded, as will be explained later in this statement. This individual was accompanied by a woman, sitting in the passenger seat. The witness managed to take a picture of the vehicle which he handed over to the police, and which is now exhibited. The picture is recorded as having been taken at 18H08 on 29/04/2007.

NOTE: The top picture shows a parked car on the road out from Sagres. It was originally thought that this was the actual rented car hired by Krokowski and his wife. However, it has been pointed out that the car in the photo is a Vauxhall Corsa, not a Renault Clio, so it seems that the PJ was withheld Lourenco's actual photo. Nevertheless, from the very vague description of the whole alleged near-kidnapping by Lourenco, it appears to be the case that he alleges that Krokowski's car was parked some distance from the cake shop/café.

After taking the picture of the vehicle, with the date/time stamp recorded by the mobile phone, a few minutes later the couple in question left in the direction of the Sagres Fortaleza. Thinking that the recorded license plate would no longer be of any use, the witness threw (the) paper in the rubbish or on the ground.

UNQUOTE

More improbabilities

In reading this statement, a great many obvious questions arise. We might note to start with that at least three different dates have been given for the date this alleged near-kidnapping took place. Goncalo Amaral in his book gives a different date.

Here are some of the many other questions that arise:

1 How likely is it that, immediately after his daughter had nearly been snatched, he could take several pictures on his mobile ’phone in quick succession of Krokowski while he stood right in front of him, facing him?

2 How likely is it that on all of these occasions, he just happened to have his finger stuck over the lens of his mobile ’phone (indeed, is it technically possible when taking a photo on a mobile ‘phone that you cannot see if your finger is in the way or not?

3 How do we get from Lourenco taking photos straight in front of him to ‘noticing’ that he was now ‘next to’ the wheel of a grey Renault Clio? Did he chase Krokowski? Did he follow him on foot? Or did he just happen to ‘notice’ him out of the corner of his eye? Lourenco tells us nothing.

4 We are then told that he takes a photo of the car. Why does he only take one photo?

5 Lourenco says that he sees a woman next to Krokowski in the car – presumably his wife. Are we supposed to believe that all the time he was ‘nearly’ kidnapping a three-year-old, she was just meekly sitting in the car or hanging around Sagres somewhere, waiting for him to come back with a young girl?

6 If indeed Lourenco had taken a photo of Krokowski in his car, wouldn’t the most likely thing be for Krokowski to drive off in a hurry? But he doesn’t do this. Why not?

7 In fact, Lourenco says that they only drove off after ‘several minutes’. Again, are we to believe that Lourenco just stood there for several minutes, yards away from Krokowski’s car, not doing anything? Not taking more photos? Not walking up to Krokowski and confronting him?

8 Lourenco tells us that the photo was taken at 6.08pm on Sunday 29 April. It is noteworthy that he emphasises this time by repeating that there is a date and time stamp: “The picture is recorded as having been taken at 18H08 on 29/04/2007. After taking the picture of the vehicle, with the date/time stamp recorded by the mobile phone…” Now where else in this case have we come across heavy emphasis being placed on the accuracy of a date and time stamp?

9 How credible is it that he (allegedly) wrote down the registration number of the car – and then got rid of it?

10 How credible is it that he now cannot remember if he threw it in a rubbish bin or on the ground?

11 And finally, one of the most pertinent questions of them all. This man - Krokowski - had (allegedly) been photographing four children on the beach earlier in the afternoon. Then, later Lourenco (allegedly) nearly had his three-year-old daughter snatched from his side. He admits that he has a mobile ’phone with him. Where is the ’phone call to the police?
While he’s on the beach? – No
Just after the kidnapping has ‘nearly’ happened? – No
While he’s taking a photo of Krokowski’s car and standing there watching him? – No
Later that evening when he gets home? – No
The next morning? – No
Later that day? – No
The day after (1 May)? – No
The day after that (2 May)? – No
The day after that (3 May)? – No
The day after that (4 May)? – No.
He waits until Jane Tanner has given her statement.
He waits until Wojchiech Krokowski’s plane has left the tarmac at Faro Airport for Berlin.
And only then does he pick up the ’phone, pretending that he is doing so because he thinks what happened to him may just be relevant to the reported disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

So here’s what may have happened.

HYPOTHESIS A:

1 Nuno Lourenco’s entire statement is a tissue of lies

2 He did not invent his story on his own whether to gain attention or for any other reason

3 The attempt to identify Krokowski as a kidnapper was ludicrous as it is wholly contrary to common sense to think that a bloke on holiday with his wife could possibly have abducted Madeleine McCann

4 The purposes of his identifying Krokowski as the likely suspect included (a) diverting the Portuguese Police from pursuing other lines of enquiry (b) inducing the Portuguese Police to pursue a wild goose chase after Krokowski over Europe to Germany and Berlin, and (c) generally to promote the theory that Madeleine McCann was abducted

5 The striking similarities between Jane Tanner’s description of the man she said she saw and Nuno Lourenco’s description of Krokowski (‘not a tourist’, clothes, long dark hair, classic shoes etc.) provide clear evidence of a co-ordinated plan for Jane Tanner and Nuno Lourenco to get the police to investigate Krokowski

6 There must have been a planning meeting to discuss this audacious plan

7 The striking fact that hairs of the same haplotype as those of Jane Tanner and Robert Murat were both found in the very apartment in the Sol e Mar complex where Krokowski was staying raise these three possibilities: (a) that a planning meeting took place in Krokowski’s rented apartment (b) that Jane Tanner and Robert Murat were present at this planning meeting, and (c) that Krokowski was also present, thus enabling Tanner to describe him to the police on 4 May

8 Nuno Lourenco did not take the photo of Krokowski’s rented car at 6.08pm on Sunday 29 April but did so at another time later in the week

9 The time and date stanp on his mobile ’phone was forged.

10 For Krokowski’s car to have been photographed just outside Sagres, before Lourenco gave it to the police, suggests that Krokowski may have co-operated with this elaborate hoax.

Amelie McCann: "Maddie's jammies. Where is Maddie?"

"Why would anyone take a photograph of their daughter's pyjamas before she is abducted? It is not one for the family album. Its only purpose could be to support and encourage a search for the missing child. BUT THEY DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS MISSING UNTIL 10 o'clock THAT NIGHT. OR did they? If Madeleine McCann's pyjamas were not in fact abducted, then nor was Madeleine McCann."

Gerry McCann calls for example to be made of 'vile' internet trolls

Brenda Leyland was doorstepped on 2 October 2014 by Sky reporter Martin Brunt who accused her of 'attacking' the McCanns. On Friday the mainstream press attacked Brenda without mercy. The next day she was found dead in a Leicester hotel room having, apparently, taken her own life.

The McCanns 'Dossier of Death' led directly to the suicide of Brenda Leyland

The author of that disgraceful Dossier can be easily identified, and comes as no surprise. Brenda Leyland paid the price. She paid with her life.

McCanns forced Gonçalo and Sofia Amaral to divorce in order to seize his assets

"This litigation will carry a heavy price"

Richard D. Hall: 'When Madeleine Died?'

Please click on image to view all three Madeleine films

Campeão das Províncias: "Do you think the reopening of the process is possible?"

Gonçalo Amaral: "I remind you that the McCanns “demanded” the archiving of the process, in 2008, when they were arguidos, merely to defend their image. They are not interested in the reopening of the process or of the investigation"

Kate and Gerry McCann

Have never requested the re-opening of the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance.

Handbook of Masonry, page 183

You must conceal all crimes of your brother Masons...and should you be summoned as a witness against a brother Mason be always sure to shield him...It may be perjury to do this, it is true, but you're keeping your obligations.

Adam Tudor - Carter Ruck

Adam joined Carter-Ruck in 2001 and became a Partner in 2003. In libel circles, Adam is best known for representing Kate and Gerry McCann in their libel and privacy complaints.

Carter Ruck

Innocent Victims

Secret Trafigura

Carter Ruck silence the enemies

Secret McCann

Carter Ruck silence the enemies

Maddie: The Truth of the Lie

Translated into English

Daughter missing. What would you do?

And so the story of Madeleine McCann begins, as told in their own words...

"Cheer up Gerry, we're on holiday"

"Fuck off, I'm not here to enjoy myself."

Gerry McCann in Lisbon

"There's no evidence that Madeleine is dead and there's no evidence to implicate us in her death"

Dr David Payne, Leicester Royal Infirmary

Majorca, September 2005: Dr Katherina Gaspar witnesses a scene with David Payne and Gerry McCann which flabbergasts her and makes her fear for the safety of her daughter and the other children.

Kate McCann

"My struggle to control 'very difficult' Madeleine"

Eileen McCann

"That girl could throw a tantrum if she wanted to"

Question 41

"Is it true that in England you even considered handing over Madeleine’s custody to a relative?"

Manuel Catriano

“This story did not begin in the Ocean Club, but in London where the official truth was conspired and established: an English girl was kidnapped in the Algarve”

Honorary Chief Commissioner of the National French Police

"Today, the only person prosecuted in the case of the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann is the officer who conducted the investigation. "

Gonçalo Amaral

“I feel accomplished. It is the feeling of fulfilled duty, but there is something more, that I cannot speak about, of justice being carried out and the truth being discovered. These are not wishes, they are principles, I’m not speaking about any specific case.”

"Mummy, why didn't you come when we were crying last night?"

Don't you forget about me either

"Soon, very soon, the world will know the truth about the lie and we will gain truth and justice for a little girl who has no voice, dead on the evening of May 3rd "

Note of Despair

“Prior to the PJ arriving at 12:40/12:50 Russell O'Brien has written the timeline for them all, including, ‘Jane tanner sees stranger walking carrying child.’ He does this while Gerry McCann sits at the same table. At three o' clock in the morning Jane Tanner informs Gerry McCann for the first time, about the existence of a possible abductor.”

the bottom line is....

...that Kate McCann was in Apartment 5A when Madeleine cried for her father between 22.30 and 23.45 on Tuesday 1st May 2007, leading to a unique flurry of late night calls and to unique calls very early the following morning."

I don't want to dwell on it too much

"...that means that, you know, she must have fallen back asleep very quickly, errm... and then she moved on… you know, she moved on."

Witness Martin Smith

In Ireland, the Smiths are watching the BBC news, which is broadcasting the event. For them, it's a shock: that person, they recognise him. That way of carrying his child, that way of walking. From that moment, he is sure: the man they came across that night was Gerald McCann. Of that there is very little doubt.

The arrival of the specialists

The hypothesis of death is considered

Whoosh!

The Article Team McCann Didn't Want You To Read

Martin Grime, dog handler

"The dog's behaviour for these alerts led me to the following opinions. The first alert was given with the dog’s head in the air without a positive area being identified. This is the alert given by him when there is no tangible evidence to be located [i.e. a physical corpse], only the remaining scent."

Death scent and blood

Found on Kate's trousers, Cuddlecat, child's red tshirt, behind the sofa, in the wardrobe and in the car the McCanns hired 25 days after Maddie disappeared.

Blood on curtains in 5A

The dogs detected cadaver odour behind a couch in the apartment’s living room, close to a window that leads to the resort’s back area. This window had curtains that were removed and analysed by police, and a small blood sample was detected. Both the curtains and the wall where it was located at, had been washed.

It means, the McCanns planned the death of their daughter?

Lüdke: "Yes, it is possible that they planned this a long time ago, they must at least have played it through in their minds many times and they must have spoken about it together. Otherwise they would now be contradicting each other."

Sandra Felgueiras asks the McCanns about the cadavar dogs

Gerry McCann, father of 'abducted' Maddie: 'Ask the dogs, Sandra'

Eddie and Keela

Pride of South Yorkshire

Gerry McCann

CEOP Approved Guest Speaker

'According to you, what happened on May 3, 2007?

Madeleine McCann died from accidentally falling behind the sofa in the living room of the apartment. That couch had been moved when the alarm over the alleged disappearance was raised. I think that someone discovered the body, concealed it, cleaned everything up and pushed the sofa to the window.' Gonçalo Amaral

Gonçalo Amaral

"As far as I’m concerned, I commit myself to embody the hopes of all of you, and not to give up, despite the survival of my own family being at stake, but the defence of those values and principles is essential."

If they had found DNA – so what?

If Madeleine had hurt herself inside the apartment – why would that be our fault?

Gonçalo Amaral

"Let's remember: it is totally logical to find Madeleine's DNA in the home, but absolutely not in a car rented more than twenty days after her disappearance."

Do you think the body was refrigerated?

Gonçalo Amaral: "Yes. The bodily fluid in the car shows that. If the body had been buried there would have been mummification. The fact that there were fluids points to refrigeration."

On the 28th of September 2007

it was claimed by the police in Portugal that they believed Kate McCann killed Madeleine whilst putting her to bed at their holiday apartment in Praia da Luz between 7pm and 8.30pm on May 3 2007 and then hid her corpse in a fridge. This they allege was done with the help of friends.

Daily Express: 13.09.07

"Find the body and prove we killed her"

Gonçalo Amaral

"I am brought the witness statement of a neighbour, according to whom, the McCanns left their car boot open all the time. For Gerry's brother-in-law, the bad smell was explained by the fact that the McCanns transported their bins in it. As for the blood, it had been left by a piece of meat fallen out of a shopping bag. Kate's cousin explained that the unpleasant smells were due to the little ones' dirty nappies."

Michael Wright, relative of McCanns

"I noted some disagreeable smells on a number of occasions which I judged to have come from the twins’ nappies. I have no knowledge of anything spilling from any article nor of any cleaning of the car after such a hypothetical spill."

"The priests also know very well what happened that night.”

John Geraghty, leicester businessman

Obtained the keys to the church and offered to store the McCanns hire car.

Sean and the Sea Bass

Sean subsequently developed a taste for Sea Bass which can produce cadaverine under some circumstances

Lawyer João Grade

“I read his book and I was convinced, as I had been before, anyway, that it was not an abduction. But the book does not defame the McCanns, Gonçalo Amaral does not express his opinion in it, but an investigation thesis”,

McCann twins: We will fight man who took our sister Maddie

'The twins both know the person who took Madeleine has done something very bad' - even though they were asleep at the time.

Eddie Stobart joins the search for Maddie

"Someone, somewhere, knows where Maddie is"

The exploitation of Madeleine

A gallery of obscenities

Books found in McCanns bedside cabinet

"Still, there is no denying the quality of the liaison, with guidance, in the form of police manuals, later finding its way onto Gerry McCann's bedside cabinet."

Discrediting Martin Grime and Eddie & Keela

David Rose once admitted that his pre-Iraq war reports were based on propaganda fed to him by the security services

McCanns and the Eugene Zapata case

The dogs were right all along

Murdered pensioner Attracta Harron

Eddie found her body in a shallow grave and Keela detected her blood in a burnt out car five months after she was murdered

Humans dug up coconut where Eddie alerted to cadaver

Martin Grime: 'People aren't right 100 per cent of the time. Otherwise they wouldn't be human.'

Questions: Tavares Almeida interviewed Kate McCann

"From what has been established up to now, everything indicates that the McCann couple, in self-defence, doesn’t want to deliver the cadaver immediately and voluntarily, and there is a strong possibility that it was moved from the initial place of deposition."

Forensic Science Service

Stu "hope you are well" Prior

Leicester police chief hits back at Gonçalo Amaral

"I can assure you that at no time were statements withheld and not passed on." Oh, really? Let's have a look then shall we?

One of the withheld statements by Dr Katherina Gaspar

I was seated between Dave and Gerry who I believe were both speaking about Madeleine. I don’t remember the conversation in its entirety, but it seemed they were discussing a possible scenario. I remember Dave telling Gerry something like “she”, referring to Madeleine, “would do this”.. When he mentioned “this”, Dave was sucking on one of his fingers, pushing it inside and outside his mouth, while with the other hand he made a circle around his nipple, in a circulatory movement over his clothes. This was done in a provocative manner and carried an explicit insinuation in relation to what he was saying and doing. I remember that I was shocked at this, and looked at Gerry, and also at Dave, to see their reactions. I looked around as if saying “did anyone else hear this, or was it just me”. There was a nervous silence registered in all the conversations and afterwards, everyone began talking again.

Innocent parents?

Those nasty police questions: Leaving No Stone Unturned

"My plan was to stay quiet and not answer."

Those 48 questions: Leaving No Stone Unturned

“Are you aware that in not answering the questions you are jeopardising the investigation, which seeks to discover what happened to your daughter?” Kate: “Yes, if that’s what the investigation thinks.”

The cancelled police reconstruction

"Kate and Gerry and their friends cannot see the point of all the disruption it would cause to their busy work schedules and families if, as they believe, it will do absolutely nothing to help find Madeleine"

The cancelled reenactment

Shocking emails from Tapas 7 to Leicestershire Constabulary

Channel 4: Madeleine was here

McCann's chose to do their own reenactment, despite disruption to their busy schedules

Do you maintain your conviction that Madeleine McCann was killed in Aldeia da Luz?

Francisco Moita Flores: "I do. There are no material conditions to opt for another solution. The mystery lies with one or two of the ten or twelve elements that used to enter that apartment".

The search for Maddie

Hampered by Gonçalo Amaral's book

Gerry's key alibi, Jes Wilkins

And his connection to Donal MacIntyre

The journalist and the film maker

They walked past the press, sniffer dogs, police to get to the shops. But they didn't get involved. They didn't help. They just watched.

John McCann

How did he know Maddie wouldn't be found soon after he gave up his full time job to be a director of the Fund, despite having a mortgage and a family to support?

John McCann

"It's not bad for a bunch of amateurs"

The wider agenda

Gerry works on the Fund Campaign

McCann Fund Fraud

John McCann spoke briefly to us on the phone until he realised we were asking about the Fund. His response was to claim we had the wrong telephone number and that he was in fact a “Mr Jones”.

The Fraudulent Fund

Click image to read about how the McCanns spent your money

Why don't the McCanns advertise the reward?

Click image to find out

Child neglect pays

A profitable business, even if a child has died.

From Papal to Paypal

Clarence Mitchell

"I am a decent human being"

Clarence Mitchell lies on NZ Radio

“Anybody who has given money to help find Madeleine need have no fear that their money is being spent on lawyers fees or anything like that.”

McCanns used Maddie Fund

To pay their mortgage

What was your most memorable experience as a lawyer?

"Naturally it would be pretty hard to top Mr and Mrs McCann’s victory against Express Group."

Kate and Gerry set to sue Gonçalo Amaral

Ed Smethurst, McCanns lawyer

“We are currently demanding €1.2 million in damages, but we are reserving the right to increase this value as soon as we can ascertain what profits have been generated from the sale of this book” (which, presumably, is why you didn't sue as soon as the book was released...)

Do you fear that Gonçalo may be forced to pay the compensation that is being demanded by the McCann

"I don’t think that is possible, we will appeal until the last instances."

Maddie 'treated as a commodity'

Says Gerry who referred to Maddie's eye defect as a good marketing ploy and has an online Maddie shop

Maddie's Online Shop

Where you can buy wristbands, tshirts, and travel packs so YOU can look for Maddie while her parents concentrate on fundraising, suing people and paying their mortgage with the money you give them.

But it was a "good marketing ploy"

"If that situation had been of an abduction, it would have been terrible for the child. Because if that child were to be sold, or something else... She was as good as... it was her death sentence. That situation, that day, advertising that photo, was simply the death sentence of that child." Carlos Anjos

Kate McCann

"I can't stop thinking about Madeleine, about her fear of pain"

"Be brave, sweetheart"

"Whoever Madeleine's with she'll be giving them her tuppence worth"

Maddie Mystery

The Key Questions

Maria Bandeirinha, business owner Praia da Luz

“Kate passed by my door, laughing her head off, with a friend, days after her daughter disappeared. What mother has a child in an unknown location and feels like laughing?"

Kate's favourite prop

Cuddlecat, smelling of death scent from 6 corpses due to Kate taking it to work with her before their fateful holiday, arrives at Portimao police station for questioning

Susan Healy feels her daughter is being persecuted because of her appearance

“Kate said last night ‘If I weighed another two stone, had a bigger bosom and looked more maternal, people would be more sympathetic’,”

What, like this you mean?

McCanns ban Maddie book

Gonçalo Amaral: "I am not shutting up"

Goncalo Amaral’s new book:‘A Mordaça Inglesa’ (The English Gag)

In his second book, The English Gag, he suggests there is something significant about a pink blanket which he claims disappeared on the night the three-year-old vanished from the resort of Praia da Luz in 2007.

Portuguese Attorney General Fernando Pinto Monteiro

One way or another the McCanns were responsible for their child’s death

McCanns: October 2007

"Madeleine is probably dead"

Gonçalo Amaral:

"Too much politics, that's what there was, too much politics and not enough policing."

McCanns: Amaral's documentary will never be shown in England

In England, the documentary was attentively watched on the Internet (---) by those who wanted to watch what they know no channel in the country will broadcast.

Dr Paulo Sargento, Forensic Psychologist

Gonçalo Amaral is the visible target the McCanns want to take down

Marcos Aragão Correia,

"'Target was hit, Gonçalo Amaral was convicted'

Journalist Robert Mendick

“A further obstacle was removed with the death from stomach cancer two weeks ago of Guilhermino Encarnacao, who was in charge of the Policia Judiciaria in the Algarve."

The McCanns' private detectives, Metodo3

Extortion and attempted murder - and that's just the detectives

Kate McCann

"It's funny, we were having such a good time. We were with our friends and their kids. I think cos there was a group of us, you're just into each other, d'you know what I mean, you're kind of and your interactions are with each other, whereas maybe if it'd just been me, Gerry and the kids, erm, you spend a bit more time looking round, you know."

Kate McCann and the Millennium Restaurant

"It was just because the walk was so long and we didn't have a buggy and the kids were tired by that time."

'Blair covering up paedophile scandal?'

Smiling for the paedophiles

"I think some paedophile or some other swine has taken Madeleine. Madeleine is a warm, life-enriching little person and will never fail we're sure, to bring joy into the life of anyone she may encounter."

FRAGMENT OF CLOTH recovered from BEDSPREAD

1 piece of cloth in envelope n° 5 recovered from the bedspread of the bed next to the window in the children's bedroom. Fragment of cloth, mauve/violet in colour with square motifs, circular in form about 10cm in diameter. A small fluorescent spot is observed under a Crime-light.

Gonçalo Amaral

"there were gestures and words indicating the existence of a child molester within that group of people"

Dr David Payne, Leicester Royal Infirmary

"We have a pact. This is our matter only. It is nobody else's business"

Fiona Payne

"Erm, erm, I’m thirty, I’ll work that out actually, I’m thirty-five years old. I work as an Anaesthetist at Leicester and Leicester Registrar. I’m married to David Payne."

Index of Official Files & Statements

Yvonne Warren Martin further states that one of her main aims when she wrote the anonymous letter was for the British police to check the paedophile or child abusers registers to see if David Payne is on that list.

The McCanns televised reconstruction for profit

"It would be interesting to know the reason why Mr David Payne is not taking part in the reconstitution. He might explain for how long he bathed the children and at what time."

Linda McQueen with Gerry McCann

"The family had a great routine - their mealtimes, bedtimes and bathtimes in particular were great fun."

Gerry McCann: "The situation Madeleine finds herself in"

Dr David Payne suspected of paedophilia

"Mummy, I've had the best day ever"

Maddie was “so beautiful, astonishingly bright, and I’d have to say very charismatic. She would shine out of a crowd. So—God forgive me—maybe that’s part of the problem. That special quality. Some bastard picked up on that.” Jon Corner

Raymond 'patsy' Hewlett

"A paedo a day keeps the PJ away": Paulo Reis

Robert 'patsy' Murat

Framed by NHS doctors Kate and Gerry McCann

Detective Sousa

"There is one piece of stand alone evidence"

The criminal law does not protect children

"They are being left to sleep alone, while the parents get drunk at social gatherings, falling from windows and balconies like ripe fruit, or drying inside vehicles without the according penal sanction occurring"

Kate explains to Oprah

"It was so dark...it was dark, erm I've never had such a long night it was dark and you're just praying for the light you know to come up to get out there it's just..."

Rachel Oldfield on checking the young children who were left alone in a dark apartment

"I didn’t really like going up there by myself, it was, like going through that car park was quite dark and there was never anyone around, it was a bit, you know made me feel a bit uneasy”

McCann's internet appeal: "Imagine if she was your child"

"Imagine being Madeleine in a pitch black room, in a foreign country crying out for your parents who are out on the piss every night."

Rachel Oldfield: Maddie's 'abduction'

"If you take the common sense approach and look at timings and the fact they are medics and there are four other medics in the group, they would know what to do to resuscitate a child."

Rachael Oldfield

"So basically we’d go and have dinner and then we’d sort of run back you know every fifteen twenty minutes and have a listen at the door and make sure nobody’s screaming their head off”.

Dr Russell O'Brien

Left the table some time after 9pm to attend to his own daughter, who had become ill with vomiting

Not a liar or a fantasist, she insists

A witness of sorts...

Timeline of staged abduction

From official police files

Find Madeleine Fund

Now a non-governmental organisation

Jim Gamble, CEOP

Did not send your photos to the Portuguese Police

Interview by Kazlux

Bloggers interview Sofia Leal and Gonçalo Amaral

Basta!

Portuguese citizens fight back

Scarred town tries to forget

Ocean Club

Killer doctors

In the UK a "dishonest, malevolent doctor" could still get away with murder

Dr Gerry McCann

Is Doctor Gerry McCann fit to continue working as a doctor?

Dr Gerry McCann still working at Glenfield Hospital

Suspected of concealing his daughter's body

Father Pacheco

“There are two completely different Pachecos, the one before the McCanns and this shell of a man after the McCanns. He is a nervous wreck.”

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown

Leicestershire Police refuse FOI requests

John Stalker, former Deputy Chief Constable

From Kate McCann's diary:

"Rome is preparing itself for our visit"

Oprah's 'Kate and Gerry' chatroom

Like Rome, Oprah is preparing herself for the McCanns

Gerry McCann, the devout Catholic said:

"Sometimes people do things for reasons that even they cannot understand. An act of madness, an accident or sudden impulse can lead to consequences that people may never have imagined or intended. Faced with such a situation we believe any human soul will ultimately suffer torment and feelings of guilt and fear.”

Susan Healy

"Kate phoned me, errm… about an hour after Gerry and asked me to get in touch with, errm… Paul Seddon, who is the priest, Father Seddon, who married her, who baptised Madeleine, errm… and I didn't have his mobile phone so I rang a friend of Kate's and got… got him and he rang Kate right away and I think as soon as this happened, as soon as Kate realised what had happened, it was as if, errm.. she started to ask God right away to give her Madeleine. Errm… because Kate and Gerry were not the most devout family."

Books found in McCann's apartment

Kate McCann: "You know, there isn't a text book that tells you what to do when your child has been abducted". (Except for the 'Missing and Abducted Children' text book found in your bedside drawer, of course.)

“Yes, yes, I know,” Gerry says bitterly.

“Kate killed her in a frenzy, Madeleine was sedated by us, she fell down the stairs—in which case you would have thought they’d have found her body. I’ve heard all that! There have been a huge number of theories in the media. But what I want to know is—who told them all that?”

Gonçalo Amaral with Guilhermino Encarnacao

The man who became known in the investigation for having prevented Gonçalo Amaral from carrying out the interrogation of Kate McCann at a moment when she was, according to several inspectors who were present on location, “ready to talk”